Letter From The Farm | Winterage In The Burren
We’re back on Shane Casey’s farm in the Burren, Ireland, where it’s nearly time for the reverse transhumance cattle drive – or ‘winterage’ as it’s known locally.
Act: Inspiration
Fossil fuels vs climate action: A not-so-hidden dilemma
We waited too long to begin the inevitable transition away from fossil fuels.
“The possible has been tried and failed: now I want to try the impossible”: What Sun Ra can teach the climate movement
What if, as climate activists, we were to respectfully adopt that concept of “I’ve been to the future. We won” and build on it.
January Notes: Making Peace with Our Ancestors
So how, indeed, can those of us of colonialist heritage and good will do the serious work of deconstructing, then reconstructing and healing our ancestral heritage in our own minds and lives, while sorting out and holding fast to the beliefs, attitudes, practical knowledge and skills that might be useful and beneficial?
Meet the new Transition groups
What’s it really like to start a Transition group? To stick your head above the parapet and see who in your community would like to engage in community action to build a better future? And how do you get something off the ground with all the constraints of a global pandemic?
A Bigger Tent Delivers Stronger Wins for Climate: The Lesson From Illinois
The state’s recently passed Climate and Equitable Jobs Act offers a model for other states to build coalitions to help communities and the planet.
Wanted for planetary health: a degrowth transformation rooted in caring commoning practices
In caring commons, autonomy and self-reliance are approached collectively. Human health is understood holistically, with a focus on promoting community solidarity in caring endeavors.
The pandemic armchair philosophy blog: The long game, a creation story for the pandemic weary
We are each and all of us playing the music of the spheres in the Big Bang Orchestra, which doubles as our hearth and home.
Letter From The Farm | A Swiss Shepherdess In Bohemia
It’s a source of satisfaction to Jacqueline that she and her family are very much present in the fields around the village where they live.
One reason she wanted to become a farmer was to see animals in the pastures.
Individuals and social pressure: how to change the world
I recently had an extraordinary and rare experience, as an academic, activist and citizen: I participated in a victorious movement.
From The Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities—Excerpt
From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities focuses on the unique ways in which US cities are expanding the scope of global solutions that mitigate and adapt to climate change while creating equitable and livable communities in the process.
How India’s Farmers Launched a Movement Against Modi’s Farm Bills—and Won
The Indian farmers’ protest is a model for all struggling people worldwide. Their relentless and sustained protest shows that a sure resolve, control of resources, and perseverance is key to winning against neoliberal forces worldwide and ushering in a world where working people are the focus of national economic policies.
